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A32786	A sermon preached in Saint Pavles chvrch the tenth of October, 1641 by Mr. Thomas Chisheare ... ; vvherein are many memorable passages most worthy of serious observations in these times.	Cheshire, Thomas, b. 1600 or 1601.	1641 (1641)	Wing C3780; ESTC R18461	9,416	17

A SERMON PREACHED IN SAINT PAVLES CHVRCH THE tenth of October 1641. By Mr. Thomas Chisheare Master of Arts of Brasennose Colledge in Oxford VVherein are many memorable passages most worthy of serious observations in these Times Printed at London in the yeare of our Lord 1641. A SERMON PREACHed at Saint Paules Church the tenth of October 1641. Vpon Psalme 148. ver. 12. and part of the 13. Young men and maidens old men and children let them Praise the name of the Lord MY whole alotted time would be to short to stand either to speak of the Pen-man heere the holy Prophet David or this his worke in generall or this his Psalme in particular For himselfe he was a man after Gods owne heart that is his greatest title and he went beyond all the Sonnes of Adam who was a King and a Prophet in all causes both Ecclesiasticall and pollitique in foure particulars never yet paralleld A Shepherd a Musition a Souldier and a Prophet For the first ye know what service he did he slew a Lion and a Beare an absolute tipe of Death and Hell to be overcome by this victorious Lion of the Tribe of Iudah For a Musitian he was the sweet singer of Israel yea he was able to charme the Devill himselfe and quit that evill Spirit which vexed Saul For a Souldier he was most famous witnesse that Battell wherein he slew Goliah and beheaded that great Champion of the Philistines with his owne sword For a Prophet none so fully and so clearly foretels the Person Incarnation Passion and resurrection of Christ foretold as David did he in his owne person did oftentimes intimate many other men so that his divine writings are the Compendium of all the sacred Scripture it seemes Christ himselfe set much by this booke for you may observe that he used the sayings of the Prophet David more then any other Prophet yea more then all the Prophets together Moreover when the Devill tempted Christ he arged a Text out of this Prophet as if the Devill had observed how greatly Davids sayings were respected Our Church considering the usefull excellency of this part of Scripture hath ordained a more frequent use then of any other part of Divine write But I must stay no longer in the commendation of this our Prophet or his booke of Psalmes he rather bids as practise what we finde written young Men and Maidens c. Which wordes are the Conclusion of a Psalme which we may not unfitly stile by the name of a Divine Masque where is scarce any Creature in the whole world but the Species are in this Psalme Here are Angels and all Hosts Sun and Moone and Starres of light The Heaven and Heavens and the waters that be above the Heavens The Earth the Dragons and all Depths Fire Hayle Snow and vapours and stormy winds Mountaines and all Hils Fruitfull trees and all Cedars Beasts and all cattell creeping things and flying Foules Kings of the earth and all People Princes and all Iudges of the earth And in the words of my text Both Young Men and Maidens Old Men and Children let them praise the Name of the Lord You that desire strange and rare sights O come hither and view the whole troope of Gods creatures a Chorus that is led by Angells followed by men and directed by God himselfe and yet stay not too long in contemplating of them for thou they selfe also of what degree soever have a part to act as well as the rest Young Men and Maidens c. For my better proceeding herein I shall first observe the connection of these wordes with the precedent Secondly the duty that is commanded and that is praise to God And thirdly the Actors and those are Iuvenes virgines c. So that you see the Text like the Iron gate to Peter opens unto us of its owne accord and to looke for more abroad were like Esaw to hunt for Venison a farre off when like Iacob wee may have it neere our hand I will treat of this Text very plainely for Ita non debet loqui Theologus ut possit intelligi sed ut non possit non intelligi First that we may know that this Masque is worth our labour and not unbeseeming so glorious a creature as man is our Prophet shewes us that it befits the Angels in Heaven yea it is the height of their felicity to comfort themselves in Anthems of praise to Almighty God So saith Saint Luk. And suddenly there was with the Angels a multitude of the heavenly Hosts praising God The Angels leaped out of Heaven for ioy to congratulate mankinde with a morning Antheme of praise and thankes Thus you see the part we have of act is nothing derogatory unto our worth since the glorious Angels themselves are imployed in the same But to go on this our Prophet shews that the very Beasts and Trees and Foules can performe that which the Devill would perswade us is so difficult The Oxe knoweth his owner and the Asse his Masters crib but Israel doth not know my people doth not consider So heere our Prophet would have us to take notice of Beasts and Foules of the aire nay the aire it selfe wind and stormes fulfilling his word Christ tels the Iewes that the Queen of the South should rise up in Iudgement against them at the last day and not onely the Queene of the South but the arie wind of the South shall as it were rise up in Iudgement against us at the last day because that also doth performe the will of God Which man will not doe Now I come to that which I chiefly 〈◊〉 at Young men and Maidens c. The Duty here inioyned is a duty of Praise but not so much 〈◊〉 as 〈◊〉 for then the Pharisee would have acted his part best our praise must be both Ore Opere Cora● Christ forbidding swearing in that Divine Sermon of his upon the mount shewes us a Method how to affirme or deny any thing Let your communication be yea yea nay 〈◊〉 for whatsoever is more then these commeth of evill On which place I remember one glosseth well Christ doth not intend saith he that we should pronounce yea twice or nay twice with our tongues but that the heart should first consent or refuse and then the tongue should follow either in yea or nay there should be an agreement betweene the tongue and the heart let your communication be yea yea nay nay so likewise in preaching the name of God it must be first performed by the heart and then ecchoed out by the tongue and afterward commented upon in all our actions as yea may see in this Psalme where the Prophet calling upon the creatures to praise God urgeth them thereunto with an argument taken from the wind and storme fulfilling his word So that it is not enough for the wind to whisle or the raine to rattle if we should

the Seperation who will not admit of any set forme of prayer for that as they say is cursing of the Spirit but why then should we have a set forme of singing For my part it shall ever have my allowance I thinke that these their Ex tempore prayers sounds as harshly in the eares of heaven as divers Psalmes sung together in sevorall tunes would in ours I remember the Apostle Paul makes mention of three graces viz. Faith Hope Charity but the chiefest of these is Charity Charity love is the chiefest Propter durationem for in Heaven we shall enioy both that we did beleive and hoped for but love shall accompany us there also in imitation thereof I shall also name three prayer praise and Patience but the chiefest of these is Praise and that for the same reason because it shall outlast all other here we stand in need of things necessary both for the body and soule and therefore we have need of prayer here we are troubled and afflicted with divers kinds of adversities And therefore we had need of Patience but hereafter in heaven all teares shall be wiped away from our eyes we shall have no need then of Prayer or patience onely praise shall still remaine then it shall be as it now is the greatest ioy of the Angels to consort themselves with the Saints in singing glory and Honour and praise to him that sits upon the Throne to the Lamb for evermore And so I have done with the duty in generall And now give me leave a little to acquaint you with some observations and first for reproofe there is no impartiall Christian but it would grieve his heart to see the prophanation of Gods ordinances when Coblers Weavers and Taylours and Feltmakers Frange leves calamos scinde Thalia libellos And these to goe unpunished nay much made on and well countenanced many of our Pulpits now a dayes do ring of the Doctrine of Devils On did preach publikely that it was not fit for Parents to teach their children the Lords prayer Another did maintaine and approve of that bloody act of Eelton An other to use his owne wordes would maintaine that there was no more holinesse in the Church then in his Kitchin nor in our communion Table then his Dresserboard O horrid Blaspemy what will become of us if Ecclesiasticall iurisdiction may not curbe such as these are O that they might be permitted to punish these things with what fury would they dart out their thunderbolts and with their Coruscant beames beat these bats into their accursed holes the house of God prophaned the memory of the Saints razed the monuments of good Christians it is great pitty to see that those who have beene speciall benefactors to this City that their Monuments are defaced I would it might be taken into serious consideration neither Insignia Regalia can escape their censure For in one Church of this City it was openly preached that the Kings Crowne should be pulled downe because it had a crosse upon it I wish we could pull downe the old man of Sinne and leavell those mountains of Pride which are in our hearts Gods house is abused and the Ministers of God abused there cannot one of them goe along the streets but straight he is taken notice on who he is or the like contumelious reproaches look yonder goes a Iesuite and Abbilubber one of Baals Priests one of Canterburies whelpes There is one place I would have you look unto where it is said They mocked the messenger of God and despised his words and misused his Prophets until the wrath of the Lord was against his People till there was no remedy We read in the former verses that they had polluted the Temple and commited many and great sins bnt yet God did forbeare untill they came to misusing of his Prophets and then there was no remedy the word in the originall doth properly signifie that their sore was cancred The decent Munimenta which have stood time out of mind in divers Churches to keepe the Lords table from prophanaion is fetched away by those that have no authority I conceive the order of the honourable house of Parliament I do confesse that there were too many alterations of late but for those that have stood decently time out of mind that the rude and inconsiderate multitude should demolish them I would wish these to consider what the holy Prophet saith He that breaketh a Hedge a Serpent shall bite him I conceive that ye all know what I meane by the Hedge and I wish you may not too soon feele what is meant by the Serpent We have too many in these our days are so invective against Bishops as if they would pluck up both branch root in one day although there may be some faulty in the Church therefore shall the Church suffer Some Aldermen have been faulty and some Iudges have been Dilinquent but therefore shall there be no Iudges no Aldermen Let the parties that have done evill be punished and not their 〈◊〉 office So likewise for the booke of Common Prayer how is it condemned and reviled that I say what was made by the consent of many godly Ministers and sealed with their dearest blood it hath bin termed by the name of Pottage or Porridge you must give me leave to be a forewarner to tell you For what things the wrath of God doth hang over our heads but by my conseut those that will have none of the Porridge should have none of the meat Ex tempore Prayer Ex tempore Preaching as if their glorious Lord heavenly Father had deserved no more reverence at their hands then to serve for blockes and Posts that when they are ready to tumble out of their way by taken of theirin considerate hast taken hold of these names keep their tongues in play while their rash invention makes a farther passage you shall read what Method was observed in the building of Solomons Temple that it was built of stone made ready before it was brought thither so that there was neither hammor nor Axe nor any toole of Iron heard in the house while it was in building if this Method were observed in the building of the Temple we should not have such hacking and hamering as if Babell were now building rather then the house of God or if it were rather a pulling downe then a building up and therefore our late King Iames cals such Prayers Monstrous births and indeed how can they be otherwise when they are conceived and brought forth all in one houre Prayer is the most necessary duty to a Christian of all other and of all other most acceptable to Almighty God Oratio fidelis est coeli clavis But thou such as these must not thinke to open Heaven gate with the rusty picklock of ex tempore prayer The same author King Iames saith in his {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} If we